Bowling Green Today

There were 1,848 white students enrolled in Edmonson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.5% decrease from the 1,896 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Edmonson County welcomed a total of 1,996 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 92.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Edmonson County, Edmonson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 565 students, making up 91.7% of the school's total student body.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.

School name	% of White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
South Edmonson Elementary School	92.3%	492
Edmonson County 5/6 Center	92.8%	264
Edmonson County Middle School	92.2%	293
Edmonson County High School	91.7%	616
Kyrock Elementary School	94.9%	331